Food and Culture Texts posts new books and other materials of interest to researchers investigating food and cultural studies, as well as the critical analysis of eating practices and broader cultures of consumption.

Other title Reading food in Asian American literatureIncludes bibliographical references (p. 181-189) and index.

Contents Enjoyment and ethnic identity in No-no boy and Obasan -- Masculinity, food, and appetite in Frank Chin’s Donald Duk and "The eat and run midnight people" -- Class and cuisine: David Wong Louie’s The barbarians are coming -- Diaspora, transcendentalism, and ethnic gastronomy in the works of Li-Young Lee -- Sexuality, colonialism, and ethnicity in Monique Truong’s The book of salt and Mei Ng’s Eating Chinese food naked -- Epilogue: eating identities.

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This list of books and resources represents some of the new material in the collections of the University Library at the University of California, Davis.
Librarians, David Michalski, Axel Borg and others refer books to this list as time permits. For a complete list of materials, and inquires, please visit the University Library.

Critical Studies in Food and Culture (CSFC) is a research cluster sponsored by the Davis Humanities Institute and the American Studies Department at the University of California, Davis. It aims to support and share the work of Faculty and Graduate Student researchers investigating the intersections of food and cultural studies, as well as the critical analysis of eating practices and the broader cultures of consumption.